In this post, discuss how the issues of privacy and confidentiality are related to new media.
Privacy and confidentiality are huge issues of new media noways, I researched and analyzed one of certain examples from news.Facebook has promoted through their homepage to
attract commercials and advertisings. Their strategy is to show six hundred
million users who have Facebook accounts, and then they contribute other
businesses the subscriber’s life patterns, and commercial interests. Facebook
attracts other advertisers by the approach that customizes each age, gender and
interest for each personalized group. However, Facebook has been criticized in
this process and that it infringes on the privacy and uses of personal
information of their subscribers. The personalized advertising on Facebook invades
the privacy of individuals in the advertising which utilizes personal
information such as addresses, ages, diseases, interests and unauthorized
disclosure without consent of the users. They should stop immediately the
advertising services which monitor users’ usage patterns then send advertisings
for specific products related to that field for multiple similar patterned
users. In particular, this is a cyber-crime whether Facebook acknowledges it or
not.
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